Month: November 2012

The doctrine of tongues passages as found in De Trinitate in the Greek and parallel Latin. Authorship is traditionally attributed to the fourth century Alexandrian Church leader, Didymus of Alexandria, though this is in dispute.

The paradox of Nazianzus’ two choices on understanding the tongues of Pentecost, and how this debate continued for almost a millennium.

Gregory posited two theories about Pentecost in his typical Greek philosophical style. Were the apostles speaking in a sound or single voice, and the hearers supernaturally hearing their own? Or was it simply a miracle of spontaneously conversing in foreign languages unknown beforehand by those speaking?